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Business planning. --- Small business--Growth. --- Success in business.

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Une analyse économique des caractéristiques des PME en tenant compte de la personnalité du dirigeant, des théories micro-économiques et macro-économiques ainsi que du financement de ces entreprises.

Small business --- Entrepreneurship --- Management --- Growth --- Small business - Management --- Small business - Growth --- Croissance de l'entreprise --- Pme

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This paper identifies separate and unique pathways to profits among small businesses in South Africa that are exposed to marketing or finance training in a randomized control study. The marketing group achieves greater profits by adopting a growth focus on higher sales, greater investments in stock and materials, and hiring more employees. The finance group achieves similar profit gains but through an efficiency focus on lower costs. Both groups show significantly higher adoption of business practices related to their respective training program. Consistent with a growth focus, marketing/sales skills are significantly more beneficial to firm owners who ex ante have less exposure to different business contexts. In contrast and in line with an efficiency focus, entrepreneurs who have been running more established businesses prior to training benefit significantly more from finance/accounting skills.

Business Training and Education --- Efficiency Focus --- Emerging Markets --- Entrepreneurship --- Finance and Accounting Training --- Firm Performance --- Growth Focus --- Job Creation --- Marketing and Sales Training --- Randomized Control Trial --- Small Business Growth

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In a world of increasing financial uncertainty and growing unemployment, the macroeconomic contribution of SMEs is more important than ever. Development of a vibrant, sustainable small firm sector is dependent on sufficient resourcing of SMEs, particularly adequate capitalisation. This book provides a timely examination of SME financing and determinants of capital structure. A special feature of this book is the novel methodological approach adopted, providing an innovative perspective on SME financing. Analysis of stated financing preferences and objectives of SME owners is combined with results of statistical analysis of firm characteristics in exploring holistic explanations for observed capital structures. The uniqueness of this approach is in the contribution of data on financing preferences to supplement and contextualise results of bivariate and multivariate statistical tests. This methodology extends the SME literature, and is of interest to academics, researchers, practitioners and policy makers.

Finanzierung. --- Kapitalstruktur. --- Klein- und Mittelbetrieb. --- Small business -- Finance. --- Small business -- Growth. --- Small business --- Financial Management & Planning --- Finance - General --- Banking --- Investment & Speculation --- Finance --- Business & Economics --- Growth --- Finance. --- Growth. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Organization. --- Planning. --- Probabilities. --- Statistics. --- Public finance. --- Economics. --- Public Economics. --- Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes. --- Finance, general. --- Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance.

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The spectacular success of several well-known new ventures in technological fields, which in little more than a decade have jumped from the state of start-ups to that of top international businesses, has pointed to innovation as a key factor in the high growth of firms.  These high-growth enterprises often drive job creation and innovation, so policy makers are increasingly making such companies a key focus. Specifically, how can government policy foster the creation of more high-growth enterprises; what are the growth factors, and how can they be leveraged; what are the appropriate ways to provide such support? To help answer these questions, this report presents findings from two new research studies: (1) reports from 15 countries (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Tunisia) that provide interesting insights into the operations of and challenges faced by high-growth enterprises; (2) a policy survey by the OECD Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship, which reviewed more than 340 programmes that policy makers in 24 countries have put in place to support the growth of enterprises.  Some of this report’s findings may surprise: any firm can be a growth company; growth is almost always a temporary phase; high-growth small firms are funded mostly by debt, not equity. These and many more insights are summarised and analysed, providing policy makers with ideas on how to power growth at the firm level.

Corporations -- Government policy. --- Corporations -- Growth. --- Small business -- Government policy. --- Small business -- Growth. --- Management --- Business & Economics --- Industrial Management --- Corporations --- Small business --- Growth. --- Government policy. --- Businesses, Small --- Medium-sized business --- Micro-businesses --- Microbusinesses --- Microenterprises --- Small and medium-sized business --- Small and medium-sized enterprises --- Small businesses --- SMEs (Small business) --- Business corporations --- C corporations --- Corporations, Business --- Corporations, Public --- Limited companies --- Publicly held corporations --- Publicly traded corporations --- Public limited companies --- Stock corporations --- Subchapter C corporations --- Corporate growth --- Business --- Business enterprises --- Industries --- Corporate power --- Disincorporation --- Stocks --- Trusts, Industrial --- Size --- Brazil